17 JULY 1920, page 23

Poets And Poetry, Mr. Phillpot1's.•

THEM is undoubtedly something very attractive about Mr. Eden Phillpotts' work. It is always difficult to analyse charm, • As the Wind Blow. By Eden Phillpalks. London • Elkin......

Mr. Thomas Hardy Prefaces By A Little Note A Small

book of studies of London by "Dora Sigerson " (A Dull Day in London ; Nash, 4s. 6d. net). Mr. Hardy was struck, as the reader will be, by the author's unusual sympathy with......

How To Observe In Archaeology. (british Museum. 2s. 6d....

—Mr. G. F. Hill has edited for the Archaeological Joint Com- mittee a compact and useful little handbook for travellers in the Near and Middle East who would like to take an......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent reviete..) The London Mercury for July contains an interesting poem entitled " Gleaning " by Edmund Blundon, and......

The Book Of The Dead. By Sir E. A. Wallis

Budge. (British Museum. Is.)—The learned Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities has written an admirable account, for general reading, of "the great collection of......

Diplomatic Reminiscences. By A. Nekludoff. (murray. 21s....

well-known Russian diplomatist, has written an interesting volume on his experiences at Sofia from 1911 to 1914, and at Stockholm from 1914 to 1917. As Russian Minister at Sofia......

There Is Hardly Any Branch Of Research From Which The

modern yorld expects more than that which includes the study of folk -lore and of psychology. In Mr. Marett's book (Psychology and Folk-Lore ; Methuen, 7s. 6d. net) the subject......

Studies In History And Politics. By Herbert Fisher....

Press. 12s. 6d. net.)—The Minister of Education warns us In his preface that these interesting and thoughtful essays are not the work of his official leisure. Seven out of......